Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc.

ELS Real Estate Reit Residential

Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.5 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+4.22%
EPS
−10.0%
Free cash flow
+33.5%
Total debt
+19.5%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

62.55 2.25 +3.73%
Market cap
$12.6B
P/E
29.7×
Fwd P/E
28.8×
Dividend yield
3.56%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. (ELS) Operating margin

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Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 34.6%, up 0.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (34.1%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 29.2% (fiscal 2022) to 34.1% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is above the Reit Residential industry median of 21.7% and above the Real Estate sector median of 18.4%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 34.1% 0.79
FY2024 33.3% 2.57
FY2023 30.8% 1.62
FY2022 29.2% (0.32)
FY2021 29.5% (2.00)
FY2020 31.5% (1.62)
FY2019 33.1% (0.25)
FY2018 33.3% (0.16)
FY2017 33.5% 0.58
FY2016 32.9% 0.17

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 33.4% 1.35
Jun 2026 32.0% (5.05)
Mar 2026 37.1% 0.96
Dec 2025 36.1% 3.23
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Against its own ten years

Low 29.2% High 34.1%
Ten-year median 32.9%
Current reading's percentile 100

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
UDR United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc. compare 52.2%
ELS Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. 34.6%
ESS Essex Property Trust, Inc. compare 29.5%
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. compare 26.3%
AMH American Homes 4 Rent compare 25.0%
INVH Invitation Home compare 24.3%
SUI Sun Communities, Inc. compare 21.7%
CPT Camden Property Trust compare 17.9%
JAN Janus Living, Inc. compare −2.59%
Reit Residential industry median 21.7%
Real Estate sector median 18.4%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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